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With Khrushchev also in the party, there could be no doubt, as Bulganin told a U.S. consular official, that the talks would be "at the very summit." The American answered that he did not think that one delegation member was at the highest level. Quick as a flash, Bulganin asked, "You mean Zhukov?" And then, without even hinting at the possibility that the Communists hope to capitalize on Marshal Zhukov's old-soldier friendship with Dwight Eisenhower, he set out to justify Zhukov's inclusion. "How can questions of disarmament be solved without him?" asked Bulganin. "Zhukov might...
...Bulganin, as Premier, officially heads the mission, and thus a great deal at Geneva may depend on the character and personality of this 60-year-old marshal. Only in recent months, in the searching and candid lens of foreign cameras, has the world had a good look at him. All his life he has served Communism and his country-as policeman and purger, businessman and bureaucrat, Defense Minister and Premier. Yet, until six months ago, he has made little more impact on the Western world than a splendidly caparisoned beefeater, opening and closing the door through which more ambitious...
Nikolai Alexandrovich, as the comrades call their Premier, is a marshal of the Soviet Union. With his shoulder boards bouncing and his chestful of medals ajangle, he can cut a fine figurehead of a military man. Yet Marshal Bulganin has never actually commanded anything more formidable than a posse of secret policemen...
Liaison Man. In the roster of Soviet eminence, Bulganin until recently took a back seat, not only to the party bosses, Khrushchev and Malenkov and Kaganovich, and the government officials, Molotov and Mikoyan, but even, in some respects, to his subordinate: Hero of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov. Bulganin learned self-effacement in the hardest school of all: Joseph Stalin's, where self-effacement was often the price of survival. On the dictator's 70th birthday, every member of the Politburo was required to compose a paean of praise for the Soviet newspapers. Khrushchev contrived to include...
...wary balancings of power that have gone on since Stalin died, Bulganin has a unique qualification: his experience as liaison man between the untrusting masters of the Kremlin and the untrusting brasshats of Moscow's Frunze Street, the Red army GHQ. The Kremlin used Bulganin as "the eye of the party on the army." At one point, his job was to cut down to size such wartime heroes as Zhukov and Konev. But Bulganin also seems to have ingratiated himself somewhat with the military people by becoming a lobbyist in the Kremlin for better weapons and higher army...